How Dan Slott TORTURED Ben Reilly

[@SynthVoice]

Dan Slott's 'The Clone Conspiracy' is one of the worst comics I've ever read, and it absolutely stands up as a bottom tier Spider-Man comic in every sense of the term. It's a ludicrously mean-spirited comic that seemed to only have been made to spit in the face of Scarlet Spider fans who'd simply wanted to see the character again after him being out of the spotlight for well over a decade. It just makes no sense to me that writers like Dan and Zeb Wells seem to only want to use the Clone Saga, and by extension Ben Reilly, to tear him and his stories down. I want one win for this character, Marvel. Ben Reilly deserves to be Spider-Man.

[@Scarlettspider-h4v]

Hey synth, it's me Been surfing through the channel for a good while now Great stuff, I'm glad you're huge fan of me I can say that me and Pete have been through some DOOZIES Despite all the noise at marvel (And I can't say I'm looking forward to the future ) I like to look back on the things we do have My favorite years of all time was when I was taking Pete's place as "THE SENSATIONAL SPIDER-MAN" Quite a title for myself 😁 During that time me and Pete were like brothers He didn't care I was in his costume, or that I was swinging through his City It was like... he understood what it was for me, like ... The missing piece in my life I felt exactly like that during my " LOST YEARS " arc, I felt like I lost everything from that I never had... But being Spider-Man helped me... Being a hero helped me... I can say I miss that time in my life But despite what marvel has come to Don't beat up to Dan about it ( we'll ... maybe a little ) I've enjoyed looking back at the times I was a hero The first time I took on Venom ( and won the first time 😎🔥) Or The time Doc Ock was a girl ( that was weird ) And the times me and Pete were closer than the cap and his shield But I will say that despite the HORRIBLE abominations that marvel has produced There are no shortage of great Spider-Man stories Or Ben Reilly's thanks for everything bro 👍 Peace ✌️

[@TevyaSmolka]

I agree ben riely really deserves a win

[@zillafire101]

Out of the betrayals Doc pulled, him calling Kaine an abomination probably hit the hardest. That scene felt like he just kicked a sick puppy

[@daikaijutony3534]

Holy shit you’re one of the few people on KZbin who’s willing to talk negatively about Dan Slott, while being someone who’s actually read the comics.

[@jacobrivera1721]

Same here

[@mikuelmanuel1287]

Its sad how marvels been treating ben reilly by always trying to make him evil for reasons, but no matter how bad it gets for ben i will always appreciate him for being my favorite marvel character and being the character to get me into spider man to begin with, in my eyes he will always be the spider man, the blonde brother of peter and kaine, the spider man who always moved forward no matter what comes his way, to me he will always truly sensational, hope you all have a amazing day and take care

[@TMF979Resurge]

It's why I regret ever having given even one volume of BEYOND a go, I don't care that Queen Goblin has a cool ass design (cuz she really does), I don't care that Mark Bagley drew for it (It's actually some of his worst work yet, nothing at all like is Ultimate Spider-Man work or even what he did for the Kindred Saga), The fact that they just had to bring Ben back to shit all over him is a knife. They just can't stop twisting To add insult to injury, the books that all this garbage takes place and all are drawn beautifully, and that's what people like Brian and Dan and even Nick, do, they hire these amazing artists to doll up and dress up and make the book look beautiful even though the content of the story is absolute ass I've said it over and over, any talent Bendis ever had went flushed down the toilet after The original Ultimate Spidey run, Ultimate End should have been his mic drop like Scottie Young's variant cover even showed, He should have retired then and there because Spider-Men II was a fucking joke, I have literally no investment in "Prime-Miles", or really any of the Post-Secret Wars schlock he shat out, nor Saladin Ahmed's following run, especially not the ULTIMATUM arc (Not once buying the idea that Ultimate Goblin could be made a lackey to ANYONE, especially not an edgy tryhard evil version of Miles), I couldn't care less I'm glad I stopped reading where I did and just took choice issues and volumes from Nick's run to at least see if I missed anything vaguely entertaining or cool Even that's subject for debate

[@crowwithinternetservice]

I agree with Dan Slott's era being severely overrated. Though i do have a soft spot for Superior Spider-Man and i thought it gave Otto's character a new sense of direction (Until they threw all of the development out the window)

[@TMF979Resurge]

And even when they tried to give it another go with Christos Gage's sequel run, they fucked that up With another One More Day maneuver, The amount of hoops these fuckers jump through to maintain this unfathomable status quo just makes ya braindead trying to wrap your head around it

[@beyondcreativitybyisaac3172]

Spider-Man: You go on to Die!!! Dan Slott: 😨😨😨

[@superthorc6894]

I think the reason why Marvel like Slott on spidey is because he was the guy more willing to play ball with no marriage with MJ. Heck he has some bad take on the MJ and Peter dynamic.

[@SynthVoice]

He really knew how to drop the ball writing literally any Peter/MJ scene during the Brand New Day era.

[@superthorc6894]

@@SynthVoice you should read interviews and old comic threads on his own personal dislike for MJ. All of it come to arbitrary and superficial reasons.

[@retronerds6884]

Exactly he wrote man child peter aka the Spider-Man quesda loves

[@dkamphaus43]

​@@superthorc6894And yet he claims to love the character.

[@abareamphibia6812]

Seriously wells and Slott need to go, give Spider-Man good writers again and please for the love of everything. STOP THIS WHOLE CHASM CRAP WITH BEN

[@Solqueen86]

It was so bad not even Miguel wants it to be a canon event

[@TevyaSmolka]

I hated clone conspiracy it was so bad and did Ben Riley character so dirty that it wasn’t even funny but just sad and depressing.

[@Zekrel]

The more I find out how marvel editorial and some writers messsed up Spidey comics, the more I kinda get depressed.

[@smhfirebruh5630]

This story would've been way better if it was just Under the Red Hood but with Gwen Stacy. A brand new corporation shows up thats taking over Parker industies and Oscorp. And a brand new Jackal is using clones of dead people. And it looks like Gwen is the one behind everything. And New Gwen is like "Grrr i hate you peter you were fucking spider-man this whole time and you didn't even kill norman osborn" And she controls all the clones using nanobots which means you can bring back anybody you want.

[@billymccrary2246]

That's would've been interesting to see than what Dan Slott did.

[@saki3963]

bro called out all the Superior spiderman meat riders. actually there were a lot of hot takes in this video

[@SynthVoice]

I genuinely hate Superior, and I can guarantee that most people who praise it as one of Spider-Man's best stories didn't do anything more than look up a synopsis of it on KZbin. It's ATROCIOUSLY written.

[@Walstiny]

​@@SynthVoicehave you read the run of Superior Spider-man 2018 With Elliot Tolliver? I honestly loved it and think it's extremely well written

[@SynthVoice]

@@Walstiny That specifically was written by Christos Cage, and yeah it was good.

[@Walstiny]

​@@SynthVoiceoh I know just that's what I was thinking, you don't hate Superior Spider-man just Dan Slott Superior Spider-man

[@sadieluellen9193]

@@SynthVoice Christos and Chip are fantastic spider-man writers.

[@beyondcreativitybyisaac3172]

Spider-Man: I will kill you 😡

[@cassie-does-things]

While I disagree strongly with your jab at spider-gwen, over all this is a great video. I'm so tired of writers taking out their anger towards a character in mainline comics because they think everyone agrees with them. I genuinely love Ben Reilly and It pisses me off that people still hold the opinion that "CLOne SaGA Is DUMB, THERefoR bEN SUCks".

[@Lion_Patriot]

Dan Slott is one of the worst Spider-Man comic writers in Marvel/Spider-Man history with the only comic run with Zeb Wells might be coming close second.

[@retronerds6884]

Nah zeb has slott beat slott is garbage don't get me wrong but wells is absolute dog shit

[@ef-jkota3611]

This is character assassination on a whole other level. It pisses me off to see what people can do to your favorite characters, and it sucks because it feels like you know the character more than anyone writing the stories.

[@MarvelousDLC]

I honestly wish we could get a story that address and fixes this and the zeb yells run that can show Ben and kaine with Peter happy but no we can't:/

[@mzov_1724]

The slott fans found the video it's jover

[@SynthVoice]

I genuinely didn't know Slott fans existed, oh my god.

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

@@SynthVoiceyou did mention superior spidermans popularity. A storm was gonna brew

[@ArcTrooperRod-269]

STILL, I'LL ALWAYS BE GRATEFUL WITH HIM FOR THE 2019 IRON MAN RUN & FOR CREATING *DR. SHAPPIRO*

[@amazingmexican12]

Ben is by far the best Spider-man and I really wish there was good new material to read, with him as Spider-man or Scarlet Spider. Sucks they are doing him so dirty

[@SynthVoice]

He just had a story set during the clone saga written by the legendary J M Dematteis! It's Ben Reilly Spider-Man: The Humanity Agenda, and it's a PERFECT story for the character.

[@mohdmirzan7565]

I cannot stop hearing ps5 Spider-Man from your voice

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

9:41 NOOOO! *I LOVE THE SHED STORY!* It was so cool seeing lizard go off the deep end! *wHhhHY?!*

[@ianbruno237]

Unless you’re created by Dan slott you as a long standing character are never safe…NEVER

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

Reminds me of Donny cates bringing back characters that haven't been in the spotlight for decades only to brutally kill or humiliate them. Usually both

[@MrPonytron]

So glad I'm buying the 90s Clone Saga omnibuses. Definitely better than the Clone Conspiracy and whatever garbage Zeb Wells is writing now

[@ajdinanno]

I really enjoyed this video and I completely agree with it. That being said, Dan Slott might find it and I don’t know if you aware of his history of appalling behavior towards online critics but it’s pretty bad. Fact is if he didn’t work in comics he probably wouldn’t be employed anymore. That’s how bad the behavior was.

[@SynthVoice]

Oh trust me. I know.

[@ajdinanno]

@@SynthVoice Okay good. I just didn’t want you getting caught off guard. Keep up the good work with your videos.

[@ShockyD]

Ooh, I can't wait to dive into this one, thanks!

[@martinocraft-1024]

I liked Superior Spider-Man it was fine

[@ghostspider2056]

To quote Hydroman’s clone from the 90’s cartoon “If you couldn’t do it right the first time, you shouldn’t have done it at all”.

[@TheUnknownGruntProductions]

I disagree on the point that Superior is bad, it is overrated, but I wouldn’t say bad. But other than that I agree this story was really terrible and Dan Slott writes some pretty bad stories for the character. Good video!

[@SuperWarrior64]

If Synth reads this just know that I'm trying to upset considering your distaste like the Dan Slott era of Spidey comics I don't give Dan Slott's era of Spider-Man a pass nor do I think it's underrated cuz it's not. (Especially after seeing this comic you reviewed) But what I do give a pass are things about his run of Spidey that I really like and enjoy. Here's a quick list Spider Island, Big Time, Superior Spider-Man, Spider Verse (the best part of Dan's era) I also feel like Spider Verse was a great way to expand on Morlun and the rest of his family. Again I hope you understand if you somehow find and read this

[@ianbruno237]

Thank you for standing up and calling the post-BND dan slott stories what they are. Disposable never ending rehashing shit

[@ryanmurray4779]

I'd love to hear your thoughts on Spider Gwen's solo series before she migrated over to 616. I personally love that early era, and I think those early stories do a wonderful job of distinguishing her from, well, just the girl that peter snapped on accident. She was so compelling, its just a shame that she's more tied to the spiderverse mantra of 'just one alternate gwen amongst thousands of masked heros'. She's phenomenal in the movies, hands down. I'm just waiting for a comeback story that brings the punk and intrigue back to our blond (not ben) webslinger.

[@elithenerd8956]

Say what you will about Slott’s run but Spider-Island was epic. I enjoyed it for what it was. Slott was good at going, “Here’s an idea.” Then another writer would run with it. He set up Kaine’s return and then Christopher Yost took that and wrote a pretty fun Scarlet Spider series.

[@Spardanian]

Agreed. Kaine Scarlet Spider was a great series and I feel it could have gone on longer. Too bad marvel keeps forgetting he exists, purposely or otherwise

[@takeruneverborn4740]

How funny this the same guy who had doc ock and spiderman swap minds yet he disses the clones of spiderman because of their introduction story isn't it wonder why Marvel screwed over Superior Spiderman and Otto Octivius just goes to prove no body is safe unless your Venom the X-Men etc

[@GreaterGrievobeast55]

Define safe, as far as I see it Venoms getting milked and plastered all over the cosmology straight towards mediocrity and beyond. I'm also seeing a lot of X men that seemed innocent enough turn into straight up terrorist and war criminals lately.

[@NaquanGreen-zt4gr]

​@@GreaterGrievobeast55 The good news is the X-Men seem to be going back to basics and Krakoa era seems to be over and done with. The Uncanny Avengers unity squad has been brought back. Cyclops becoming the new Xavier for the X-Men due to the ending of hellfire gala 2023. Sinister becoming the ultimate X-Men villain.

[@leonardpigg6441]

Gwen was wearing Green Goblin colors. I wonder if JMS picked up on that when he retconned her relationship with Norman Osborn?

[@jimboswamps5602]

Damn! My boy went off. Well done 💪🏻

[@Wilkidw]

Maybe we can get lucky and something good will happen to our boy in the new Spider-Man Ultimate series.

[@TheNewBloodDan]

Ben Reilly helped me with my own identity crisis in high school when I found out I’m on the autism spectrum. Feeling like a defective person and overcoming it with the lesson of with the knowledge you have of yourself have NOW, you NOW have a choice… Spider-Man: The lost years is my favorite Spider-Man story EVER. Dan Slott butchered Ben Reilly beyond recognition. I feel like it’s a stab in the back…

[@shreypaliwal9170]

What are your opinions on zeb wells run and when is this disaster going to end

[@wattage84]

I’m sorry buddy, I love most of your content, but I really, really enjoyed Dan Slott’s run, Spider-Island, Spider-Verse, Big Time & Superior Spider-Man are some of the most fun I’ve had with Spider-Man, granted he did Ben Reilly a little dirty, but it’s still head and shoulders above Zeb. Slott was all about reminding you why Peter was so great, and I truly believe it was Marvel editorial that kept forcing Peter back down. In a world where Otto was the more efficient Spider, Peter was superior, on an island where everyone has Spider powers it’s Peter that is the one who will save the day, and in a Multi-Verse of other Spider-People is Peter’s smarts, courage and willpower that stopped the Inheritors. I’d also like to point out that Peter is my 3rd favorite Spidey despite growing up with him (1st Miles, 2nd Ben, 3rd Pete) but I don’t think it’s fair to dump on a run that helped remind me why I love Spider-Man, just because it wasn’t your cup of tea

[@quentin1326]

*shrugs* The fact that Spiderman is still running after ten years of this crap is a true testament of how stupid FANS are. If they stopped buying the comic Dan or whoever the latest depression crazed writer is would be fired.

[@MinasTsambanis]

Zeb Wells: Am I a joke to you?

[@francescomarasco590]

And then came Zeb Wells aka Mephisto himself

[@Razzmatazz_NY]

Jim Cheung’s art was good

[@star.master_cranium]

We need to blacklist certain people from ever writing a Comic. Zeb Wells should already be on top of that list and Dan Slott is a very very close second.

[@Nimrod336]

Dan slott is the worst..I loved kains scarlet spider run..but after that event that crap Ben Riley got title and it was go's. Awful...so they where trying to screw up even more stuff that was good

[@Dookieman1975]

Now that I think of it. Are venoms pronouns they/them or we/us?

[@theradionicrevival8068]

Both

[@Respec2.1]

I am Ben Reilly fan and I hate Clone Conspiracy, this comic ruin many things , but HOW GOD DAMN DARE YOU SAY THAT SUPERIOR IS OVERRATED, NO IT'S NOT , IT'S DEFINITELY UNDERRATED 😅😅😅

[@Jay_SGE]

You can not like Slotts Run but to say it’s not good is just disingenuous. Just say it did stuff you didn’t like. Taking new directions with a 60+ year old character isn’t “misinterpreting”

[@mzov_1724]

Taking a character in a new direction doesn't equal making a character do shit he wouldn't (what slott did) This impacts MJ too, and the avengers. Everyone got fucked with, especially in superior. I have nothing against slott as a person but to say his writing is good in TCC is very weird

[@ianbruno237]

Dan is the main man in making Peter act out of character, just because he made him do other stuff doesn’t always means it’s good

[@SynthVoice]

It's simply not good. He's easily the worst writer to take on the web slinger, and the damage he did to the character is still being felt in today's comics.

[@ianbruno237]

@@SynthVoice simply facts my friend

[@Jay_SGE]

@@ianbruno237 “Out of character” is a very misleading statement in my opinion. While these characters do have some defining traits. They have been around for almost 100 years every writer has their own vision of what is “in character”.

[@hughstonbowman3961]

Overall this is a good video, but I think you need to find the balance between being frustrated at a story, and acting like a dick. I totally understand why you don’t like Dan Slott’s writing. But there were points in this video that went beyond fair criticism. That little bit about Slott having blackmail was just a shitty, unnecessary thing to say. You don’t have to go easy on his writing, call it as bad as you like, but don’t make the insults so targeted at him as a person. Comic writers aren’t celebrities, they basically see everything that is posted about them, and such personal attacks can really sting. I dig your passion, I really do, but a shitty comic is not a good enough excuse to demonize someone this hard. Once again, I thought you had a lot of good points, and I don’t mean to condescend, I just thought this was important to say.

[@wattage84]

I 100% agree, this video came across spiteful unfortunately

[@ajdinanno]

You should read up on Dan Slott’s behavior online towards those who criticize his writing before accusing someone else of being a dick. Seriously. He’s done some appalling things to people who’ve criticized his work and a few of them weren’t even criticizing his work directly to him.

[@Honest_Mids_Masher]

@@ajdinanno what exactly does he say?

[@NaquanGreen-zt4gr]

​​@@Honest_Mids_Masher Watch a few videos and read a few articles detailing his appalling behavior. Dan slott cannot handle criticism.

[@NaquanGreen-zt4gr]

​@@Honest_Mids_Masher Dan Slott has said and done some truly appalling things to critics of his work. Blocking people on Twitter. Immature and unprofessional behavior towards critics. Generally appalling behavior.

[@haileyharmon5298]

Everyone pour one out for Ben Reily, he deserves better than this. 🫗